The Ape (1940)

4.8/10 62 min Horror Mystery Science Fiction

Overview

Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs human spinal fluid to complete the formula for his experimental serum. Meanwhile, a vicious circus ape has broken out of its cage, and is terrorizing the townspeople. Can there be a connection?

Cast

Boris Karloff

Dr. Bernard Adrian

Maris Wrixon

Frances Clifford

Gene O'Donnell

Danny Foster

Dorothy Vaughan

Mother Clifford

Henry Hall

Sheriff Jeff Halliday

Selmer Jackson

Dr. McNulty

Gertrude Hoffmann

Jane the Housekeeper

Jessie Arnold

Mrs. Brill

Billy Bletcher

Short Mustached Posse Man

Harry C. Bradley

Quinn

George Cleveland

Mr. Howley

Ray Corrigan

Nabu

Gibson Gowland

Posse Member

Julia Griffith

Townswoman

I. Stanford Jolley

Ape Trainer

Donald Kerr

Citizen Carrying Mauled Ape Trainer

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